Trippaul Threat (PdN x BMJ) Community Grow

This is a dedicated grow log for Tristen's awesome cross, which I
have been growing out since 2014.  I'll start with a bit of history and
some photos documenting what's happened so far.
 
In January of 2014, Tristen (Trippa) sent me a little care package of seeds.
In the package were two generations of a cross he had made, which he just 
called 'Mystery Cross, F1' and 'Mystery Cross, F2'.  
 
Here's Trippa's Mystery Cross seedlings in February of 2014:

 

 
Both generations showing the purple foliage characteristic since the beginning.
 
Up close look at Trippa's Mystery Crosses, F1 and F2.  Both culled to a single
plant after the photo taken, so I only had one plant of each generation:

 

[Masher]

Nice looking pods...my plants have recovered but only tiny fingernail size pods on a couple whites.

Rebloom has begun...hoping this next 97+ temps don't yet again mess them up.

 

[PaulG]

A couple of nice, light yellow pods on the F4-2:

Gnarly-ish pod going through a light green phase on F4-2:

All of these pods have set, grown, and started changing
color since going outside towards end of June. The hot
weather seems to spur them on:

I have counted the pods I can find in this picture, and get a different
number every time !

Happy growing, everybody!

 

[PaulG]

Nice looking pods...my plants have recovered but only tiny fingernail size pods on a couple whites.

Rebloom has begun...hoping this next 97+ temps don't yet again mess them up.

My plants havent missed a beat during this spell of 90+,
sunny days, so there is hope, my friend. I think in general,
it is a sun lover, especially if it has a chance to harden off.

Keep them going, those small pods will yield to bigger ones!

 

[Bhuter]

OMG Wow, buddyReally looking good. Some great
gnarly phenotypes and color changes. Just stellar!

Pod review forthcoming ? Inquiring minds want to know!

Thank you, Paul! I'm going to try to isolate the Purple again, so I should have isolated seeds for both next season, if anybody will need any later. Pod review??? Uuummm, proooobably not. I still feel weird about having the one review up there. ‍ Nice looking pods of all generations, my friend!!! Just great work!!!

 

[DontPanic]

With some help from Sawyer, I'm hoping I can join the fun growing out the PDN x BMJ cross.

Sawyer had a few extra PDN x BMJ seedlings all the way back in April, and graciously offered them out to the THP community.

But since then, these seedlings seem to have been jinxed.  First, an unexpected thunderstorm banged them up.  Then they had some mystery problems that left them not healthy enough to ship.  Before we knew it, we'd slipped into early July, a potentially tricky time to ship seedlings in a sealed box.

We decided to roll the dice, cross our fingers, and ship them in a SFRB.  To reduce in-transit transpiration, Sawyer trimmed them up.
 
Lately, the Post Office has really improved at getting packages delivered in only a few days.  But the Post Office decided to inexplicably struggle with delivering the seedlings.  So instead of taking from Monday to Wednesday sealed in an SFRB, the Post Office didn't put it on my porch until Friday.  That's nearly 5 full days sealed in a box in the July heat.

Luckily, the seedlings survived the extra long July shipment pretty well.

They're still slightly stressed out, and are struggling somewhat to adjust to my Gulf Coast weather.

With all these setbacks, they're not nearly as far along as they would normally be.  Normally, I'll have until late November before I start to run into frosts, so we'll see how far they'll get before the season runs out.  If necessary, my climate makes over-wintering relatively easy.
 
At any rate, it'll be fun to see if I can get some PDN x BMJ peppers out of these plants before my season runs out.
 
And many thanks to Sawyer for all his effort in getting me these seedlings.
 
I've got one in a 3 gallon conatiner.

 
And one's in a 5 gallon grow bag.

 

[PaulG]

With some help from Sawyer, I'm hoping I can join the fun growing out the PDN x BMJ cross.

Sawyer had a few extra PDN x BMJ seedlings all the way back in April, and graciously offered them out to the THP community.

But since then, these seedlings seem to have been jinxed.  First, an unexpected thunderstorm banged them up.  Then they had some mystery problems that left them not healthy enough to ship.  Before we it, we'd slipped into early July, a potentially tricky time to ship seedlings in a sealed box.

We decided to roll the dice, cross our fingers, and ship them in a SFRB.  To reduce in-transit transpiration, Sawyer trimmed them up.
 
Lately, the Post Office has really improved at getting packages delivered in only a few days.  But the Post Office decided to inexplicably struggle with delivering the seedlings.  So instead of taking from Monday to Wednesday sealed in an SFRB, the Post Office didn't put it on my porch until Friday.  That's nearly 5 full days sealed in a box in the July heat.

Luckily, the seedlings survived the extra long July shipment pretty well.

They're still slightly stressed out, and are struggling somewhat to adjust to my Gulf Coast weather.

With all these setbacks, they're not nearly as far along as they would normally be.  Normally, I'll have until late November before I start to run into frosts, so we'll see how far they'll get before the season runs out.  If necessary, my climate makes over-wintering relatively easy.
At any rate, it'll be fun to see if I can get some PDN x BMJ peppers out of these plants before my season runs out.
 
And many thanks to Sawyer for all his effort in getting me these seedlings.
 
I've got one in a 3 gallon conatiner.

 
And one's in a 5 gallon grow bag.

That is a great story, Mitch! Sawyer is a bro, all right
Excellent job sheparding them to good health
Those should do well in the 3 and 5 gallon containers.

Stay tuned to the thread and PM me your addy at some
point and I will send you some of the F7 seeds in the Fall
after they are processed.

 

[DontPanic]

That is a great story, Mitch! Sawyer is a bro, all right
Excellent job sheparding them to good health
Those should do well in the 3 and 5 gallon containers.

Stay tuned to the thread and PM me your addy at some
point and I will send you some of the F7 seeds in the Fall
after they are processed.

 

Thanks for everything you've been doing to share this new pepper variety with the THP community. 
 
And thanks for the offer on the seeds.  I'm not sure it's know if the seedlings I have are the purple variety or the white variety, but it would be great to check both of them out.

 

[PaulG]

 
Thanks for everything you've been doing to share this new pepper variety with the THP community. 

‍ the pleasure has been mine, Mitch. I felt honored that
Tristen asked me to help him keep it going, and that he
trusted me to care for his baby. Now that it is a global grow,
the cross wil get a really good test.
 
And thanks for the offer on the seeds.  I'm not sure it's know if the seedlings I have are the purple variety or the white variety, but it would be great to check both of them out.

I am not sure how much different the two are. The purple
pods were slower developing and ripening in my climate.
It would be cool to see someone with a really long grow
season grow out a purple for as long as it takes, if ever.

I would be happy to include a few of 2017 F5 purple for you.

The morning sun highlighting some of the F6 pods this morning.
The pods are growing fast; there are some nice beefy pods
like last season:

 

[PaulG]

The plants are podding up nicely. This is a nice picture
of what the cross Tristen came up with can do:

This is my neighbors front yard chili grow. The tall, dark
plants? Yup, F4 and F6

We are still in the midst of a string of days in the high 90s and
even a triple digit day or two in our back yard. 112F in the sun
today.

 

[Masher]

Tick tock.... slowly coming back to life.

These are on the whites. Purples only have blooms at this point.

Another 97* temp day expected.

 

[YAMracer754]

Straight beautiful!!

The plants are podding up nicely. This is a nice picture
of what the cross Tristen came up with can do:

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This is my neighbors front yard chili grow. The tall, dark
plants? Yup, F4 and F6

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We are still in the midst of a string of days in the high 90s and
even a triple digit day or two in our back yard. 112F in the sun
today.

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[Malarky]

still waiting for my white F6 to start turning. The plant is loaded

 

[PaulG]

Tick tock.... slowly coming back to life.

These are on the whites. Purples only have blooms at this point.

Another 97* temp day expected.

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Woah, Dan, some great looking nasties there!
Should see some color change  soon!
 
Sounds like your purples are lagging behind the whites
just as mine did last season. My purple plant has only a 
handful of pods, but they are nice ones.  Will try for
some pics with a ruler today to show the size of the pods.
 
Good work, brother!

 

[Devv]

I need to post pics, I have 2 growing still in containers. A white and a purple,  both which survived my absence while on vacation. They won't set again for another 6 weeks or so. In catching up. Paul I only ate the really white ripe pods, just as they wanted to soften up.
 
Some great pics here, 'yall are killing it!

 

[YAMracer754]

With some help from Sawyer, I'm hoping I can join the fun growing out the PDN x BMJ cross.

Sawyer had a few extra PDN x BMJ seedlings all the way back in April, and graciously offered them out to the THP community.

But since then, these seedlings seem to have been jinxed.  First, an unexpected thunderstorm banged them up.  Then they had some mystery problems that left them not healthy enough to ship.  Before we knew it, we'd slipped into early July, a potentially tricky time to ship seedlings in a sealed box.

We decided to roll the dice, cross our fingers, and ship them in a SFRB.  To reduce in-transit transpiration, Sawyer trimmed them up.
 
Lately, the Post Office has really improved at getting packages delivered in only a few days.  But the Post Office decided to inexplicably struggle with delivering the seedlings.  So instead of taking from Monday to Wednesday sealed in an SFRB, the Post Office didn't put it on my porch until Friday.  That's nearly 5 full days sealed in a box in the July heat.

Luckily, the seedlings survived the extra long July shipment pretty well.

They're still slightly stressed out, and are struggling somewhat to adjust to my Gulf Coast weather.

With all these setbacks, they're not nearly as far along as they would normally be.  Normally, I'll have until late November before I start to run into frosts, so we'll see how far they'll get before the season runs out.  If necessary, my climate makes over-wintering relatively easy.
 
At any rate, it'll be fun to see if I can get some PDN x BMJ peppers out of these plants before my season runs out.
 
And many thanks to Sawyer for all his effort in getting me these seedlings.
 
I've got one in a 3 gallon conatiner.

 
And one's in a 5 gallon grow bag.

Haha that's the same ones I got from him around the same time as well! Mine are living good and they got me into the "pdn club" as well, just took some loving and coaxing although slightly late to the game, these girls will definitely get overwintered if I don't get me a slew of pods!

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[PaulG]

I need to post pics, I have 2 growing still in containers. A white and a purple,  both which survived my absence while on vacation. They won't set again for another 6 weeks or so. In catching up. Paul I only ate the really white ripe pods, just as they wanted to soften up.
 
Some great pics here, 'yall are killing it!

  
Looking forward to seeing some pics from down your way, Scott!

Haha that's the same ones I got from him around the same time as well! Mine are living good and they got me into the "pdn club" as well, just took some loving and coaxing although slightly late to the game, these girls will definitely get overwintered if I don't get me a slew of pods!

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Beautiful foliage on those plants, Tristan!
I hope you get a boat load of pods!

 

[PaulG]

Just an update on the growth of the plants. Since going into
their large containers they have put on a substantial amount
of new growth, and the new branches that sprouted from the
stalks have started emerging through the canopies. The first
round of real pods have begun to ripen on some of the plants,
and another round of flowering has started on some others.

F4-1:

F4-2:

F4-3:

F6P:

F6W-1:

F6W-LP:

F6W-2:

Some near-ripe pods on the F4-2 plant:

 

[PaulG]

The pods are averaging about 2 inches in length across
all the plants. Here is a sample from each plant.

F4-1 - all these are 2 inches long:

F4-2:

F4-3:

F6P:

F6W-1:

F6W-LP:

F6W-2:

 

[PaulG]

Pods continuing to bulk up. Had to tie up some more of the longer branches
that were drooping from the weight of the pods. Continued hot, sunny weather
Keeps the plants humming along in high gear:

Anyone know what this bug is? I found it sucking the life out of a leaf-hopper:

 

[YAMracer754]

The pods are averaging about 2 inches in length across
all the plants. Here is a sample from each plant.

F4-1 - all these are 2 inches long:

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F4-2:

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F4-3:

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F6P:

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F6W-1:

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F6W-LP:

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F6W-2:

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Killer looking pods!

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